This workshop will focus on Programmer Tests as defined in Test-Driven Development and the XP literature. Such tests are written by programmers to drive the development of software, demonstrate step-by-step progress towards the completion of a task and provide a safety net for refactoring. We will explore specific strategies and techniques that participants can apply [...] ...
A new book on test-driven development has just been published. This 480-page paperback book, published by Morgan Kaufmann, explains the process of TDD in Java, and covers the steps and pitfalls that may be encountered along the way. Back cover: Software testing is indispensable and is one of the most discussed topics in software development [...] ...
For the last fifty years, testing has been viewed as something that gets done toward the end of a project. Sure, there may be integration testing while the project is going on, and testing doesn’t usually start after all the coding is done, but it’s usually in a later phase. However, proponents of XP suggest [...] ...
We provide training, mentoring, and coaching services for individual programmers and development teams in transition to eXtreme Programming (XP). Our range of services teach programmers how to vastly improve both ...
Adaption offers on-site and off-site training courses in TDD. These intensive, hands-on courses are designed to help programmers learn this revolutionary new approach to programming. In the Basic 3-day course ...
At Adaption we develop systems that meet and exceed the highest customer expectations, and we offer training, mentoring and coaching services that help your team learn to do the same. ...
One thing that makes unit-testing code so hard is the way the real world keeps intruding. If all we had to do was code up tests for methods that sort ...
Test-driven development is one of the central techniques of Extreme Programming. However, the impact of test-driven development on the business value of a project has not been studied so far. ...
The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Conference Committee invites researchers, practitioners, educators, and students interested in object technology to actively participate and contribute to ECOOP 2003. The conference is hosted ...
The Mock Objects project is a generic unit testing framework whose goal is to facilitate developing unit tests in the mock object style. The goal of this project is to ...
The Grinder, a Java load-testing framework freely available under a BSD-style open-source license, makes it easy to orchestrate the activities of a test script in many processes across many machines, ...
The main goal of Mock Objects is to unit test a method in isolation of other domain objects. Thus, the Mock Objects approach is to fake domain objects by using ...
Software can never be tested sufficiently, and testing usually starts too late, particularly for J2EE applications. Since components often behave differently when they are alone than when they have been ...
StrutsTestCase for JUnit is an extension of the standard JUnit TestCase class that provides facilities for testing code based on the Struts framework. StrutsTestCase provides both a Mock Object approach ...
The proactive method improves testing in two ways. First, traditional approaches tend to assign risk to each test as it’s identified. With nothing to compare to, each test tends to ...
This book will transform how you view testing methodologies and procedures. It introduces the reader to essential concepts and approaches used by practitioners in the software testing arena, while also ...
Programmers are often scared that they won’t be able to optimize later. For that reason, they tend to optimize early leading to brittle design. Test driven design can lead to ...
Test first design is fun, but in the beginning, it can be a bit overwhelming. There are all sorts of little fears. You sit at your computer, with that empty ...
Every time I do a project, it seems we don’t get the hardware until late in the project. This limits the progress the team can make. About all we can ...
In order to demonstrate XP (eXtreme Programming) practices, Bob Koss and Bob Martin will pair program a simple application while you watch like a fly on the wall. We will ...
The paper describes a project developed using many XP practices in a company that has traditional formal process. The paper covers how XP was proposed to the management, how the ...
Test-first design is one of the mandatory practices of Extreme Programming (XP). It requires that programmers do not write any production code until they have first written a unit test. ...
The purpose of this article is to examine how test first programming produces code which adheres to certain design principles. In particular we will see that test first programming insures ...
Although developers have been unit testing their code for years, it was typically performed after the code was designed and written. As a great number of developers can attest, writing ...
ThoughtWorks’ new Open Source site makes available many useful projects. http://opensource.thoughtworks.com/index.html ...